Arthur Thiriart has claimed his first World Series of Poker bracelet, topping a stacked 1,482-entry field in Event #6, the $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold’em, part of the 2026 WSOP Online bracelet series running on GGPoker.
A Six-Figure Score in the WSOP Monster Stack
The $1,500 Monster Stack drew 1,482 entries, building a prize pool of $2,111,850. As the format’s name suggests, players began with an oversized starting stack relative to the blinds, a structure designed to reward patience and deep-stacked postflop play over the shove-heavy dynamics of a typical online bracelet event. Thiriart navigated that structure from Day 1 through to the final table, converting his stack into the largest score of his career along the way.
When the final table folded down to heads-up, Thiriart held a decisive edge over Hong Kong’s Mufeng2024, and he closed out the match to secure the bracelet, $256,542 in prize money, and a $30,000 Super Pass into the 2026 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event. Mufeng2024 settled for the runner-up prize of $201,150.
A Loaded Final Table
What set this final table apart from a typical online bracelet event was the sheer quality of the opposition. Thiriart had to play through a field that included Rainer Kempe, Michael Mizrachi, Mikita Badziakouski, Christopher Nguyen, Thomas Muehloecker, Vanessa Kade, and Ole Schemion, all of whom reached the money. That list reads like a high-stakes tournament and cash game who’s who, and it underlines just how competitive the WSOP Online bracelet series has become now that GGPoker has established itself as the platform’s exclusive digital home. Beating professionals of that caliber heads-up, rather than in a soft recreational field, makes Thiriart’s maiden title carry extra weight inside the poker community.
The Monster Stack format itself likely played a role in leveling the field somewhat, since deep stacks reduce variance and put a premium on reading opponents and picking spots over multiple streets, skills that reward the kind of patient, well-rounded game that carries a player through a table full of established pros. Readers looking to sharpen that same postflop decision-making before entering a deep-stacked event of their own can start with Poker Pro Academy’s how to play poker fundamentals guide.
Who Is Arthur Thiriart?
Thiriart is a Belgian player who competes out of Andorra, a common tax and travel base for European professionals. Before this win, his largest tournament score on record was $51,713, earned for a 14th-place finish in the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed Championship at the 2026 WSOP in Las Vegas. That result already suggested he was capable of running deep in high-stakes fields, but Monday’s bracelet win, worth roughly five times his previous best score, marks a clear step up in class.
Winning a first bracelet against a final table featuring multiple past WSOP champions and high-stakes regulars is the kind of result that can reshape a player’s career trajectory, both in terms of confidence and in the kind of buy-ins they can credibly take shots at going forward. The accompanying $30,000 Super Pass into the WSOP Paradise Super Main Event also guarantees Thiriart a seat at one of the richest events on the winter calendar, in the Bahamas, without having to satellite in or pay the buy-in outright.
The Bigger Picture: WSOP Online on GGPoker
Thiriart’s win comes amid a packed 2026 WSOP Online schedule on GGPoker, which has continued to expand both in bracelet count and guaranteed prize pools as the online arm of the WSOP grows alongside the in-person series in Las Vegas and the winter festival at WSOP Paradise. For recreational and semi-professional players, that expansion means more opportunities to win a bracelet without traveling to Nevada, though as this final table shows, the fields are anything but soft. A relatively modest $1,500 buy-in was enough to attract multiple established professionals, a sign of how seriously the online bracelet series is now taken across the poker world.
For newer players studying the format, understanding how hand values shift with deep stacks is essential preparation. Poker Pro Academy’s poker hand rankings guide is a useful starting point before layering on the more advanced deep-stack and final-table concepts that separate a min-cash from a title.
What Comes Next
With his first bracelet secured and a Super Pass in hand, Thiriart is now guaranteed a seat in the Bahamas for the WSOP Paradise Super Main Event later this year, giving him a marquee stage to try to build on this breakthrough. For a player whose previous career-best sat just above $50,000, a $256,542 score, a bracelet, and a paid entry into one of the winter’s richest events represents about as complete a week as the WSOP Online series can offer, and it sets up an intriguing follow-up act when the Paradise series gets underway.
